"In theory" being the key word here. For whatever reason, it's a pita to use raw...

gertop 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution

"In theory" being the key word here. For whatever reason, it's a pita to use raw images with both virtualbox and VMware. You have to resort to third party command line tools to convert the image (qemu-img).